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I don't think you're wrong, but I'd say that it's generally more popular to be more non-human looking. The game definitely feels like it's trending toward races/species being humans in rubber masks. If that's the case, I think players will want the weirder mask. And "Orc" is both a weirder and...

And 5e (somewhat foolishly) replaced "outsider" with "celestial" and "fiend". They forced planar creatures to carry a moral bent, or else be something weird. Slaad are aberrations, for example, even if they're just humanoid chaos frogs. The only other thing that really makes sense is elemental...

Same place as the populations' food. The author forgot.

Overall, I've found that it's largely not a problem. It seems like it should be, but in the end it nearly always isn't an issue. I've seen a few instances where flying was really useful, but in the aggregate, it really hasn't been much better than having a character with Athletics proficiency...

I'll wait while Jeremy Crawford trots out his, "attack vs attack with a weapon vs melee weapon attack," semantics again.

Oh, I had a lot of fun with it. I've just developed a dour disposition in my middle years. Too many Internet discussions, probably. As a fantasy movie I'd give it a B+, but as a D&D movie it's a solid A. Way better than it has a right to be for what it is. The writers and producers clearly...

Overall it was fun. It did feel derivative of Marvel in terms of the dialogue and comedy. That's fine, but I'm getting a bit weary of it. It's starting to feel a little lazy in terms of writing. It can be funny, but it's not really how people talk. The pacing was a bit weird. I think they kind...

It's certainly stretching how durable a lute is.

This is decent, though I might be inclined to keep gnomes over adding shifters.

DM: Uh... make an ability check. DM (thinking): Please don't roll between 9 and 13. Please don't roll between 9 and 13. Please don't roll between 9 and 13.

Fae want more, at a bargain. Think of them like kings or Greek gods. Instead of being driven by morality or ethics, they want more temporal gains. They might want something -- or someone -- for power, or beauty, or to make someone jealous, etc. Improve standing in the court, improve the courts...

Personally, I think the big hurdle with 4e is that it's so difficult to get a handle on all the material for it, especially if you want errata. There is no support from WotC for any of that anymore. I don't even think the old errata documents are available from them anymore. The lack of tools...

That depends if your goal is to create a TTRPG that sees some adoption, or if you want to make your show production easier while selling a lot of books.

Mounted combat has a lot of problems in D&D. Nearly all of them have to do with the simple fact that horses don't belong in dungeons. They're so limited compared to a humanoid. Mounts don't like narrow passageways. They can't climb ladders. They can't use spiral staircases. God help you if you...

Strangely, I would have agreed with you with the 2014 Sorcerer, but I no longer agree after the release of the One D&D playtest. I think it's fine that the two exist in One D&D. I think my main complaint with the 2014 Sorcerer was that it was, in essentially all predictable cases, just a Wizard...

Look, Hommlett didn't pay their electricity bill. Oh, wait, no. This is about that guy on PBS, isn't it? 73. D&D isn't exactly perfect for me, the main character of the universe.

Hm. That's not bad. Then again, I like that good init can benefit the whole party, and you only need one observant or similar character. I also tend to feel like low Dex is punished enough.

This basically reflects my experience, although I guess I assume that it's not that the "indecisive" half don't know what to do, it's that they want to see what actually succeeds to use that to inform their action. Also, I kind of want the PCs to figure out how to work together. That's kind of...

I'm still very early in developing my current campaign setting. Here, Orcs are one of the four native races of the as-yet-unnamed world. Orcs live in the forests, and are typically nomadic, though they have a few settlements. They hunt the large game that is plentiful in the forests, and also...

Maybe he just had a big hand in writing the book.